Fundamentals of Azure

Fundamentals of Azure

Microsoft Azure Essentials

Michael Collier Robin Shahan

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To my wife, Sonja, and son, Aidan; I could not have written this book without your immense support and patience.

--Michael S. Collier I dedicate this book to my friend Carol Schultz, who passed away earlier this year. She always believed in me.

--Robin E. Shahan

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Table of Contents

Foreword ..................................................................................................................................................................11 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................12

Who should read this ebook......................................................................................................................12 Assumptions ...............................................................................................................................................12

This ebook might not be for you if.........................................................................................................13 Organization of this ebook.........................................................................................................................13 Conventions and features in this ebook ...............................................................................................14 System requirements.....................................................................................................................................14 Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................................................... 15 Errata, updates, & support ..........................................................................................................................16 Free ebooks from Microsoft Press ...........................................................................................................16 We want to hear from you .........................................................................................................................16 Stay in touch.....................................................................................................................................................16 Chapter 1 Getting started with Azure ..........................................................................................................17 What is Azure? .................................................................................................................................................17

Overview of cloud computing ............................................................................................................17 Comparison of on-premises versus Azure ...............................................................................18

Cloud offering............................................................................................................................................19 SaaS: Software as a Service.............................................................................................................19 PaaS: Platform as a Service.............................................................................................................19 IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service ....................................................................................................19

Azure services ............................................................................................................................................20 Introduction to portals .................................................................................................................................20

Azure Preview Portal...............................................................................................................................21 Blades and journeys ..........................................................................................................................22

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Customizing the Startboard ..........................................................................................................27 Azure Management Portal ...................................................................................................................28 Subscription management and billing...................................................................................................32 Available subscriptions...........................................................................................................................32 Share administrative privileges for your Azure subscription ..................................................33

Add administrative privileges in the Azure Preview Portal...............................................34 Add a co-administrator in Azure Management Portal .......................................................38 Pricing calculator......................................................................................................................................39 Billing ............................................................................................................................................................41 Chapter 2 Azure Websites and Azure Cloud Services............................................................................46 Creating and configuring websites .........................................................................................................46 What is Azure Websites? .......................................................................................................................46 Creating a new website..........................................................................................................................47 Using the portal..................................................................................................................................47 Websites gallery..................................................................................................................................51 Configure and scale a website......................................................................................................53 Configuration....................................................................................................................................... 53 Scaling ....................................................................................................................................................59 Deploying and monitoring websites ......................................................................................................61 Options for creating websites .............................................................................................................61 Notepad or an HTML editor ..........................................................................................................61 WebMatrix ............................................................................................................................................62 Visual Studio ........................................................................................................................................62 Publishing a website from Visual Studio ........................................................................................63 Monitoring a website .............................................................................................................................65 PaaS Cloud Services.......................................................................................................................................66 Creating a cloud service ........................................................................................................................66

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Publishing a cloud service ....................................................................................................................69 Scaling and monitoring a cloud service..........................................................................................72 SCALE options............................................................................................................................................72 Monitoring ..................................................................................................................................................74 Miscellaneous points.....................................................................................................................................77 Configuration in the portal ..................................................................................................................77 Production and staging slots in the portal ....................................................................................77 Worker roles ...............................................................................................................................................77 Chapter 3 Azure Virtual Machines .................................................................................................................78 What is Azure Virtual Machines?..............................................................................................................78 VM status.....................................................................................................................................................79 IP address ....................................................................................................................................................80 Billing............................................................................................................................................................. 80 Create and configure virtual machines..................................................................................................80 Create a virtual machine with the Azure Preview Portal..........................................................81 Connect to a virtual machine ..............................................................................................................84 Configure disks ................................................................................................................................................84 Caching......................................................................................................................................................... 85 Attach a disk...............................................................................................................................................85 Formatting disks .......................................................................................................................................87 Disk performance .....................................................................................................................................89 Endpoints ..................................................................................................................................................... 89 Virtual machine management...................................................................................................................91 Availability set............................................................................................................................................92 Service level agreement.........................................................................................................................93 Scalability ..................................................................................................................................................... 94 Image capture............................................................................................................................................97

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Chapter 4 Azure Storage ................................................................................................................................ 101 Blob storage................................................................................................................................................... 101 Azure Files (preview) .................................................................................................................................. 102 Table storage................................................................................................................................................. 103 Queues............................................................................................................................................................. 104 Redundancy ................................................................................................................................................... 106 Creating and managing storage ........................................................................................................... 107 Create a storage account ................................................................................................................... 107 Create a container and add blobs .................................................................................................. 112 Create a table and add records ....................................................................................................... 116

Chapter 5 Azure Virtual Networks .............................................................................................................. 119 What is a virtual network ......................................................................................................................... 119 Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 119 Definitions ................................................................................................................................................ 120 Virtual network address spaces ................................................................................................. 120 Subnets................................................................................................................................................ 120 DNS servers........................................................................................................................................ 121 Creating a virtual network ....................................................................................................................... 121 Quick Create............................................................................................................................................ 122 Custom Create ........................................................................................................................................ 122 Using a network configuration file ....................................................................................................... 125 Export the network configuration file........................................................................................... 125 Import the network configuration file .......................................................................................... 126 What ifs ..................................................................................................................................................... 127 What if you add a network? ............................................................................................................. 127 What if you remove a network? ...................................................................................................... 127 What if you change a network? ...................................................................................................... 128

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Cross-premises connection options ..................................................................................................... 129 Site-to-site connectivity...................................................................................................................... 129 Point-to-site connectivity .................................................................................................................. 129 Comparing site-to-site and point-to-site connectivity.......................................................... 130 Private site-to-site connectivity (ExpressRoute)........................................................................ 130

Point-to-site network................................................................................................................................. 131 Overview of setup process................................................................................................................. 131 Configuring point-to-site VPN ........................................................................................................ 132 Create a virtual network ............................................................................................................... 132 Deploy a virtual machine into the virtual network............................................................ 133 Create the VPN gateway.............................................................................................................. 136 Create an authentication certificate for your virtual network ...................................... 137 Upload the self-signed root certificate .................................................................................. 140 Install the client certificate (.pfx) to authenticate the virtual network ...................... 140 Install the client VPN package ................................................................................................... 141 Connect to the virtual network through the VPN client................................................. 141 Connect to the VM using the internal IP address .............................................................. 143 Test the VPN connection ............................................................................................................. 145

Chapter 6 Databases ........................................................................................................................................ 146 Azure SQL Database ................................................................................................................................... 146 Administration ........................................................................................................................................ 149 Firewall settings ............................................................................................................................... 149 Connect using SQL Server Management Studio ................................................................ 153 Billing.......................................................................................................................................................... 154 Business continuity ............................................................................................................................... 154 Database Copy ................................................................................................................................. 158 Import and Export .......................................................................................................................... 158

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